Angus Primrose

[gunnarsilins]

I´m curious to know more about this designer.
I know he designed a lot of Moody´s during the late -70´ties (I have one myself) and that he drowned when crossing the Atlantic in a Moody 33 1982 (?).
I also know he's have designed the Seals and Warriors and been involved designing Gipsy Moth IV.
But are there any more interesting facts about him?

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[Rowana]

A bit here -

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.rendcombian.freewire.co.uk/1981/page5.htm>http://www.rendcombian.freewire.co.uk/1981/page5.htm</A>

Perhaps other will add more.

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[kingfisher]

he designed my boat !

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://sirocco31.tripod.com>http://sirocco31.tripod.com</A>

<hr width=100% size=1>Group of people on the pontoon: skipper is the one with the toolbox.
http://sirocco31.tripod.com

 

[Alexis]

I sail a yacht designed by him and built in the seventies in Barcelona. It is rather lika a scaled down Scirrocco. It is called "gregal", displaces about 1.5 metric tons and is about 7m30 long. It is a rather fastish boat when wind gets up.
Haven't found any infomation or pictures on the web about this boat.

I sail this boat on Lake Geneva, where I have seen about three of them.

Cheers,
Alexis

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[Alexis]

I sail a yacht designed by him and built in the seventies in Barcelona. It is rather lika a scaled down Scirrocco. It is called "gregal", displaces about 1.5 metric tons and is about 7m30 long. It is a rather fastish boat when wind gets up.
Haven't found any infomation or pictures on the web about this boat.

I sail this boat on Lake Geneva, where I have seen about three of them.

Cheers,
Alexis

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[Gunfleet]

He was named after two bovines?

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[PeteMcK]

From the few bits and pieces I've picked up, he sounds like a fascinating character. Here's a link to the letter he sent to John Moody after taking 4th out of 54 in the AZAB in the '33' which he, of course, designed.
http://moodywaters.users.btopenworld.com/index.htm
He competed in the '76 OSTAR in the same boat but, while asleep, he was rolled in a mid Atlantic gale, and lost his rig. He's reported to have sailed over 1000 miles back into Plymouth, alone and unassisted, with a spinnaker pole for a mast.

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[nauticalnomad]

I´m curious to know more about this designer.
I know he designed a lot of Moody´s during the late -70´ties (I have one myself) and that he drowned when crossing the Atlantic in a Moody 33 1982 (?).
I also know he's have designed the Seals and Warriors and been involved designing Gipsy Moth IV.
But are there any more interesting facts about him?

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I have a yacht designed by Angus Primrose and built in Cowes by Seuters,
Her name is Hippokampos,
She is in foxs at the minute getting painted,
I do not know much about Angus primrose other than he designed some nice boats, I came accross this post as i too was looking for info on him,

 

[Wansworth]

Primrose worked with Illingworth&Primrose in the 50 and 60 on developing light displacement racers and cruising boats.I think he wored closely with souters at Cowes in the developement of the multi skin laminated hulls and laminated backboes and framing,as a breakaway from traditional wood construction.I owned a Commando Class motoer sailer designed by him,again all glued construction.. built by Blanks boatyard in the 60 which was agood seaboat.With the advent of GRP this type of construction was limited to one off racers

 

[Tom Price]

I have a yacht designed by Angus Primrose and built in Cowes by Souters,
her name is Hippokampos,

That name rings a bell BUT haven't been to find out more apart from an entry in a 1976 race.

My schooling was on the Illingworth & Primrose MAICA who won RORC Class III in 1963; the design was sold to a Cherbourg shipyard who produced them by the dozen.

 

[Jeremy_W]

I have a yacht designed by Angus Primrose and built in Cowes by Seuters,
Her name is Hippokampos,
She is in foxs at the minute getting painted,
I do not know much about Angus primrose other than he designed some nice boats, I came accross this post as i too was looking for info on him,

How is her engine these days? About twenty years ago a mate and a bunch of engineers from NEI Parsons hired Hippokampos from Arnold Clark on the Clyde and the engine practically fell apart. Being a bunch of engineers they loved her mechanical difficulties to bits.

 

[Jeremy_W]

I´m curious to know more about this designer.
But are there any more interesting facts about him?
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A couple of years ago there was a thread about this and the designer's son contributed. His account of the joys of designing Gipsy Moth IV was classic. I will try to find it in the site history.

 

[Red Admiral]

If you Google Angus Primrose you will find a number of helpful sites. After his death in 1980 Bill Dixon took over his design office and, I believe, continues to this day especially with Moody but also earlier with Newbridge Yachts. Richard Primrose, Angus's brother, was a yacht surveyor in the west country certainly during the 80's.

 

[RobBrown]

I've got a Moody 29, which I think was possibly the last yacht fully designed by Angus Primrose. Most of the Moody yachts in the 70s were Angus Primrose designed,many of them, including the 29, having the characteristic bow well. Very reassuring if up at the sharp end during a blow. Moodys after c. 1983 are by Bill Dixon, who was AP's assistant designer at the time of his loss at sea. I believe Mr Primrose's widow, Murlo, still lives in Hamble.

 

[ni4x66]

got heaps of photos of her C1989/90 , also remember running into Dan Primrose early 1990 in Caribbean, maybe Bequia, pretty sure he recognized her as one of his grandfathers boats.

 

[Yara]

He is best known in Australia for the Top Hat 25, designed with Illingworth. This wood design was copied into a fibreglass boat, and hundreds made. The book "Two in a Top Hat" describes one of the many round the world trips made in this design. More info; http://www.tophatyachts.com/about_t25.php?sid=05346037d1dd4e37d8af5cad076f07d2

 

[macd]

There's a brief bio of him on Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Primrose

This page also has a listing of yachts designed by him, although how comprehensive it is, I don't know: http://sailboatdata.com/view_designer.asp?designer_id=141

I have a Primrose-designed boat, a Northwind 435 built in Barcelona in 1988. The first such model was built around the time of his death in 1980.

 

[Twister_Ken]

But are there any more interesting facts about him?

He's the only yacht designer named after a flower.

 

[capnsensible]

I have sailed across the Atlantic four times on a yacht designed by him and am sat aboard her as I write this

 

[Cantata]

I have a yacht designed by Angus Primrose and built in Cowes by Seuters,
Her name is Hippokampos,
She is in foxs at the minute getting painted,
I do not know much about Angus primrose other than he designed some nice boats, I came accross this post as i too was looking for info on him,

I was on the delivery crew that brought Hippokampos back from Denmark to SYH a few years ago. Interesting trip, especially the SW gale in the Baltic, NE of Kiel.....!